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Announcements

2025

Ron Glass receives an award from the Paulo Freire SIG
ALL IN: Community Engaged Scholarship for Social Change is awarded 2025 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

Publications

2025

Transformative Student Voice: Partnering with Young People for Equitable School Improvement (Shelley Zion, Ben Kirshner, Carlos Hipolito-Delgado: Harvard Education Press)
Transformative Student Voice For Teachers: A Guide to Classroom Action (Dane Stickney, Ben Kirshner, Carlos Hipolito-Delgado, and Shelley Zion: Harvard Education Press)

2024

ALL IN: Community Engaged Scholarship for Social Change (Ed. Ana Antunes and Joy Howard: Myers Education Press)

2022

Social Sciences Journal, 2022 Special Issue “New Trends in Community-Engaged Research: Co-producing Knowledge for Justice”
The Assembly, 2022 URBAN Special Issue (result of the Colorado Conference in 2018)

2019

Education Policy Analysis Archives 27, 2019 Collaborative research and multi-issue movement building for educational justice: Reflections on the Urban Research Based Action Network (URBAN)

2018

2016

2016 International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 29, 10 Special Issue: Challenging Neoliberal Reforms through Collaborative, Community Engaged Research

2015

2015 Critical Sociology 41, 7-8 URBAN Special Issue

Professional Development + Capacity Building

2019

2019 The URBAN network: Critical community building for social justice Workshop @ AESA
2019 Urban Research Based Action Network Meeting on Community-Engaged Scholarship @ASA
2019 Leveraging Community-Engaged Scholarship for Social and Institutional Change @ASA
2019 Collaborative Research and Movement Building: Lessons from the Urban Research Based Action Network,” @AERA

2018

2018 Guiding graduate students through a PAR dissertation/thesis” Workshop @ AERA
2018 Pre-Conference YPAR Workshop

2017

2017 Virtual Participatory Research Workshop
2017 Virtual Workshop Human Rights in Education and Coalition Building
2017 Community Engagement & Participatory Action Research Fireside Chat @ AERA (PPT here)

2016

2016 Public Scholarship That Connects Collaborative, Community-Engaged Research to National Educational and Racial Justice Movements @AERA
2016 Pre-Conference Participatory Research Workshop
2016 PAR and Graduate School: Navigating the Challenges and Quandaries of Community-Based PAR Dissertations Workshop @ AERA

2015

2015 Building Career Pathways for Justice-Oriented, Community-Engaged Scholars: A Dialogue on Race, Justice, and the Academy,” @AERA

2014

2014 Community Based Research: A Key to the Equitable Development of US Cities @AERA

2012

2012 Combining Community Voice and Research-based Evidence to Promote Equity in Educational Policy and Practice @AERA

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